x CONTENTS. 



paos 

 tions — Baobab — Mosses, creepers, and lianas — Ferns — Beautiful- 

 leaved plants — Pitcher plants — Vegetation of the interior — 

 Spiny and prickly plants — Grasses — Reeds and rushes — Vegetable 

 foods — Rice and its culture — Roots — Arums — Coffee — Sugar — 

 Spices — Fruits — Bananas — Traveller's tree — Medicinal Plants — 

 Gourds — Tobacco — Hemp and cotton — Dyes — Lichens — Flowering 

 plants and trees — Orchids — Gums — India-rubber — Lace-leaf plant, 69-101 



CHAPTEE V. 



ORIGIN AND DIVISIONS OP THE MALAGASY PEOPLE. 



Malayo-Polynesian affinities — Alleged connection with African Races 

 — European and Arab elements — African influence on West Coast 

 — Principal divisions of the people — Colour, physique, and lan- 

 guage — Difficult problems raised by variations in these respects 

 — Attempted solutions of these — Light afforded by Tradition and 

 Philology, ........ 102-122 



CHAPTEE VL 



CHARACTERISTICS OP THE DIFFERENT TRIBES INHABITING MADAGASCAR 

 IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES. 



Hovas — Be"tsileo — Bara.— Tanala— Tankay — Sihanaka — Betsimisaraka 

 and East Coast tribes — Aboriginal peoples before Malay incur- 

 sion : Vazimba — Kimos or Quimos — Kalio or Behosy — Population 

 — Various estimates — Chief towns — Table of principal tribes and 

 their subdivisions, ...... 123-144 



CHAPTEE VII. 



CURIOSITIES OF THE MALAGASY LANGUAGE : WITH NOTES UPON THE 

 "HISTORY," "POETRY," AND "MORALITY" EMBODIED IN NATIVE 

 WORDS. 



Malayan, not African affinities — Oneness over the Island — Musically 

 sounding — Parallelism and rhythmical structure — Curious de- 

 ficiencies and fulness — Preference for passive — Dialects — Diffe- 

 rences between Coast and Hova forms — Tabooed or "Fady" 

 words — Obsolete words — Additions from French and English 

 sources — Arabic influence — Examples of the "History," 

 "Poetry," and "Morality" in Malagasy words — Words intro- 

 duced in religious matters — Onomatopoetlc words . . 145-164 



CHAPTEE VIIL 



CURIOSITIES OF MALAGASY NAMES : PERSONAL, TRIBAL AND 

 GEOGRAPHICAL. 



Length — No family names — Personal prefix — Designation from chil- 

 dren — Unpleasant names — Tabooed words in Chiefs' names 



Royal names — Sakalava customs — Christian names — Tribal ap- 

 pellations — Place-names — Foreign Nomenclature in Coast 

 Geography 165-173 



